One of Life's Small Mysteries

[queerbychoice]

Where does one go to buy matches?

I see candles for sale in grocery stores all the time, but I've never seen matches for sale anywhere. What do they expect you to light the candles with? Where does one go to buy matches?

I think you're supposed to learn where to buy things by seeing your parents buy them. But I can't recall ever seeing my parents buy matches. My parents have a big silver bowl on top of their tallest bookshelves (they put it there to keep it out of reach of their small children, I believe, and then just never moved it anywhere else after we grew up) which is full of matchbooks that they brought home as free souvenirs from restaurants and vacations long ago, and when they need matches they just take one out of there. But I haven't been on vacation to anywhere that offered souvenir matchbooks, so I have no collection to draw from.

If I ever really needed a match for anything, I think I'd have to resort to rubbing two sticks together.

Comments

[arhuaine.livejournal.com]

If the US is anything like the UK you can buy matches in the same places where you can buy cigarettes.

[littlewashu.livejournal.com]

It's not! I thought that was SO fucked up that you have to buy a whole BOX of matches for 10p! Here, when you buy cigarettes, they say "would you like matches?" and you say "yes please" and then they give you a matchbook -- cardboard matches, not nice wooden ones, but heck, they're free -- and then you say "cheers!" and leave. Ha! I'm just kidding, we don't say "cheers" here because it would sound funny because we pronounce the "r" and it sounds stupid that way.